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bashing

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bashing

  1. present participle and gerund of bash

Noun

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bashing (plural bashings)

  1. An instance of bashing; a physical or verbal attack.
    Synonym: beating
    • 1960 [1959], Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners, New York: Macmillan, page 34:
      I gulped a bit of tea. ‘I bet, Dad,’ I said, ‘you give those poor old 1930s of yours a bit of a bashing.’
    • 2018 May 31, Daniel Boffey, quoting Jean-Claude Juncker, “Russia-bashing must stop, says Jean-Claude Juncker”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Jean-Claude Juncker has called for an end to “Russia-bashing” two months after scores of Moscow’s diplomats across the EU were expelled in response to the use of a nerve agent in the UK.

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  • German: Bashing

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